496 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



dorsal margin, above tlie outer edge of which is a ferruginous-brown space extending 

 inwards to the costa and diffused in scattered spots to the dorsal margin before the 

 anal angle ; this space is preceded by two and followed by three reduplicated oblique 

 white costal streaklets, which terminates in steel-grey Hnes extending outwards very 

 obliquely ; before the apex are two more single white streaklets in the dark brown 

 costal margin ; the fringes on the upper third of the apical margin are steel-grey merg- 

 ing into pale cinereous, and becoming almost white at the anal angle, above which a 

 steel-grey, ill-defined, ocelloid patch is traversed and surmounted by dark brown 

 lines and spots ; fringes dark grey about the apex becoming almost white towards the 

 anal angle. Hindwings pale brownish, with shining greyish- white fringes. Abdomen 

 brown, anal tuft pale cinereous with a faint ochreous tinge. 



Expanse of wings 19 mms. 



Ceylon. " This identical species occurs also in Tahiti, whence I have specimens 

 collected by Mr. J. J. Walker. Mr, Meyrick's types, in which a somewhat more 

 ochreous colouring prevails are from Tonga." {Wals Ingham.) 



Genus HOMONA. 

 Homona, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 424 (1863). 

 " Male. Wings rather broad. Forewings rectangular at the tips ; costa slightly 

 convex, with a pouch near the base ; exterior border convex and oblique hindward ; 

 interior border dilated and squamous towards the base. Body stout ; proboscis short ; 

 palpi smooth, rather slender, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex, 

 third joint conical, one-sixth the length of second ; antennae very minutely setulose ; 

 abdomen extending a little beyond the hindwings, apical tuft large, diverging ; legs 

 stout; hind tibiiB with four stout spurs." 



HOMONA FASCICULANA. 



Homona fasciculana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 424 (1863). 



" Male. Fawn-colour. Forewings with an oblique darker streak, which widens 

 from the disc to the apical part of the interior border, and is bordered with cinereous ; 

 covering of the pouch darker ; a darker streak widening from middle of the costa to 

 the tip, and bordered with ferruginous ; a short broad oblique streak between the first 

 streak and the pouch, deep black hindward. Abdomen, hindwings, and under side a 

 little paler. 



Expanse 8 lines." •'•■•■•'■ 



Ceylon. 



Family CHOREUTID^. 



Wmgs small. Forewings, in repose, slightly erected and partially covering 

 the liindwings. Antennae simple ; palpi rather short, ascending. 



